Any story on Obama's purported non-response to RU hack should compare it to non-response on OPM hack. https://www.buzzfeed.com/hayesbrown/how-russia-hacked-obamas-legacy?utm_term=.tjV8O1PbN1#.it01M8ZOL8 …
OPM did more damage to the US. Nevertheless, the Obama response (even mitigation) to that was inadequate as well, largely bc of views abt FP
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Also we were dealing with the economic espionage at the time, which was beyond the pale.
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Sure. But that gets us back to larger question about what appropriate responses are, right?
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So, if you ran the largest espionage apparatus known to man, some of which was recently outed, how'd you respond to the OPM incident?
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I'd focus far more on CI (rather than ID protection) & defense. There was some of that, limited by unwillingness to talk abt how bad it was
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We are in total agreement there. They could have better spent the IID theft protection cash on shirts saying, "I survived the OPM breach".
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Right: which brings us to larger question: who even says sanctions were the appropriate response to RU hack? It might be--not convinced.
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Seemed to be the tool the administration was most comfortable with. Other options might have been deemed escalatory.
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Fair. But was it? Especially given that the sanctions as rolled out weren't going to hit any real targets that would respond.
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Yes, but we could hardly complain in a post-Snowden world. Or we could, but it would have been a waste of breath.
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